Powers/Abilities: Mandrill’s mutant powers grant him super-human strength
and enhanced agility, speed, stamina, durability, and reflexes.
Mandrill consistently emits pheromones through his sweat glands which
cause women, when the pheromones are smelled, to become incredibly
attracted to Mandrill, who can then direct them at his will, making his
powers seem almost hypnotic in effect. Continued exposure to Mandrill’s
pheromones will cause many women to be his “slaves” for prolonged
periods of time, though some women are able to resist his pheromones
through unknown means, others have resisted due to being prepubescent.
Electric shock can disrupt Mandrill’s control over others. Mandrill has
also used technological means to enslave the minds of others. Mandrill
has, at times, had access to various technological and even mystic
devices in his various plots, including self-destruct devices,
aircraft, armored tanks, powerful muscle relaxers, and a large
zeppelin. He has returned from seeming death at least three times under
unknown circumstances. Mandrill was briefly given the power to track
targeted heroes through the Asgardian Norn Stones, which also briefly
increased his own powers.

Height: 6'0''Weight: 270 lbs.Eyes: BrownHair: Brown

History: (Daredevil I#110 (fb)) - Claiming to be born in New
Mexico in 1944 (see comments), Jerome Beechman was born a mutant to a
scientist and his wife after the scientist was exposed to radiation.
Jerome was born with extra body hair and grew with a simian-like
appearance, constantly tormented by his peers. At age ten, his parents
left him in the desert to die, and Jerome quickly met Nekra, an albino
girl who'd been born to an African American couple, seemingly as a
result of the same radioactive exposure. Over the following six years,
they lived like gypsies and educated themselves by listening to school
lessons through windows. Eventually they were attacked by frightened
villagers, and Nekra discovered she had the power to turn hatred into
greater strength. She and Jerome, who used his own natural strength and
agility, defeated their attackers.

(Daredevil I#110 (fb) - BTS) - Jerome soon discovered
his talent to control women through his pheromones. He realized that
this was why Nekra was so loyal to him.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Deluxe
Edition I#8) - As his appearance grew more ape-like, Jerome took the
name Mandrill on himself.

(Shanna the She-Devil I#4 (fb) - BTS) - Mandrill, in
an attempt to gain control over several African nations, allied with
Nekra and established a small religion of female followers who tattooed
themselves in his name; the tattoos were applied by his aide, Skecher.
Mandrill kidnapped several across the continent that could prove useful
to his coup, including millionaire Gerald O'Hara.

(Shanna the She-Devil I#4) - Mandrill gathered more
that he hoped to manipulate in his slowly developing power base,
including diamond merchant Lem Stover (who Mandrill hoped to use for
funding), diplomat Lord Dunbar Ainsley, military man General Mojo, and
civil serviceman Patrick McShane, with Shanna O'Hara, known as Shanna
the She-Devil, standing by. The men refused to serve Mandrill and he
and his women warriors attacked them. Later, when Shanna returned to
Mandrill's headquarters, she was captured, but quickly broke free.
Mandrill sicced several real mandrills on her and tried to make a run
for it, but Shanna and S.H.I.E.L.D., including Agent Jakuna Singh,
apprehended him. Shanna was furious that Gerald O'Hara, her father, was
still missing.

(Shanna the She-Devil I#5 -
BTS) - Nekra organized the women warriors at the temple and led them in
a revenge plot against Shanna, planning on releasing Mandrill next, but
Shanna defeated her.

(Daredevil I#111 (fb) - BTS) - Nekra murdered Patrick
McShane and escaped. Shanna received word that her father, Gerald
O'Hara, had been murdered, and later surmised that he was killed by
Mandrill's ally, Silver Samurai, who rescued Mandrill from his own cell
because the Samurai's father owed the Mandrill a debt of honor.

(Marvel Two-in-One#3 (fb) - BTS) - Posing as diamond
dealer Hensley Fargus, and received O'Hara's estate, having been
appointed beneficiary in the will. He likely used this money to fund
his new schemes.

(Daredevil I#109 (fb) - BTS) - Mandrill organized his
female followers into an organization called Black Spectre, having them
disguise themselves with bulky armor to hide their gender. They plotted
to confuse the country through terrorism and racism, and then to step
in and rule the country after chaos ensued.

(Daredevil I#108 - BTS) - Using a gas grenade, agents
of Black Spectre stole printing plates during a battle between
Daredevil and Beetle.

(Daredevil I#109 (fb) - BTS) - Over the following
months he saw Black Spectre involved in a race riot at the Statue of
Liberty, placing a Swastika on the Washington monument, draping
Independence Hall in black, and adding Adolf Hitler's face to Mt.
Rushmore.

(Daredevil I#109) - Black Spectre organized a riot
over money counterfeited from the stolen plates on Wall Street, while
Nekra captured Black Widow and returned her to Mandrill. Beetle and
Daredevil disrupted Black Spectre's agents and sent them fleeing.

(Marvel Two-in-One#3) - Black Spectre infiltrated an
American play and mechanically hypnotized two of the actors, dressed as
Hitler and Captain America, to kill each other. Daredevil pursued a
Black Spectre agent and was lead back to their zeppelin headquarters,
joined by the Fantastic Four's Thing. Nekra, Black Widow, and other
Black Spectre members fought the men until Mandrill mechanically
hypnotized them as well. The men were tossed free from the ship.

(Daredevil I#110) - Daredevil battled two Black Spectre
representatives who'd pursued him, and they were apprehended and
imprisoned, but they were killed via an auto-destruct triggered by
Mandrill to avoid exposure. Mandrill learned Daredevil's true identity
from Black Widow. Mandrill, in black armor, took a shuttle from the
zeppelin to Murdock's apartment. He revealed himself to Daredevil and
explained his origins. He briefly battled Daredevil before the police
arrived and Mandrill fled.

(Daredevil I#111) - Silver Samurai, Nekra, and Black
Spectre kidnapped Shanna, and Mandrill told Samurai that his debt would
soon be paid off. Mandrill planned to dissect Shanna's brain, to
decipher how she resisted his pheromones. Silver Samurai and Black
Spectre then attacked the Empire State Building in a large scale plot
to jam all of America's communication lines.

(Daredevil I#112) - With the country's communications scrambled, Black
Spectre prepared to make its final moves. Mandrill and Nekra captured
Daredevil and set his body near Shanna's, planning to dissect him as
well. Mandrill threatened the Avengers and Fantastic Four to not attack
him, claiming he'd set of an atomic bomb if they did so. With Black
Spectre and aboard the zeppelin, Mandrill placed a large idol of
himself in front of the White House, then entered the building, sitting
in the president's chair when Daredevil attacked him. Mandrill and
Daredevil battled on the roof until the zeppelin exploded and Daredevil
knocked Mandrill to the ground, briefly thinking him dead, but Mandrill
managed to escape.

(Defenders I#79 (fb) - BTS) - Mandrill gathered his
old followers and recruited new ones, forming many women into an army
called Fem-Force. He also hired the five-membered Mutant Force to serve
him. He put together a plot to establish new financial capital for
himself and sent his army to retrieve a gold store at a military base.

(Defenders I#78 -BTS) - Fem-Force and Mutant Force
attacked the military base at Las Animus, Colorado and were repelled by
conveniently nearby heroes Hellcat, Valkyrie (Brunnhilde), Wasp, and
Yellowjacket (Hank Pym). Yellowjacket was taken hostage, and Fem-Force
led the heroines into a trap.

(Defenders I#79) - Fem-Force and Mutant Force
continued battling the heroines until they were captured and Mandrill
used his pheromones to enslave them to his will. Despite Mutant Force’s
protestations, Mandrill appointed the powerful Valkyrie as the head of
his armies. When two of his captives, a young girl named Dian Wilkins
and the Wasp, managed to escape, Mandrill set his army into motion,
sending them against the military base again.

(Defenders I#80) - Mandrill observed the battle from
afar, still holding Yellowjacket captive and taunting the hero. When
Defenders’ member Nighthawk managed to free the heroines from
Mandrill’s control, they quickly defeated Mutant Force and Fem-Force.
Mandrill anticipated them attacking him and escaped to his Central
American base, launching Yellowjacket in an escape rocket to cover his
escape.

(Defenders I#86) - Mandrill purchased some smuggled
Wakandan technology off the black market, using his agent, Klevshin, to
sell some of it for money. Klevshin was killed, however, and the supply
of technology cut off, disgusting Mandrill. He continued planning his
revenge on the Defenders from his South American villa.

(Defenders I#89) - Mandrill sent his Fem-Force
to attack the Defenders for revenge. They took a canister of his
pheromone and unloaded their airship over Nighthawk’s penthouse. They
were shocked to find Daredevil inside after they blew a hole in the
wall. The women quickly attacked and subdued him with a dart containing
muscle paralyzer strong enough to put down Hulk (so they claimed). They
took Daredevil and locked him in a bank vault, after Mandrill ordered
they do so.

(Defenders I#90) - From Central America, Mandrill
loaded up the Fem-Force in the ship to go battle the Defenders. A group
of Fem-Force saw Hellcat enter Nighthawk’s apartment and subdued her,
though she fought them off with her Shadow-Cloak before they put her
under Mandrill’s control. Mandrill then led his forces to the
courthouse where they interrupted the trial of Nighthawk (who’d
departed) and put Valkyrie and Judge Clark under his sway, opposing
Hulk and lawyer Milton Rosenblum. Daredevil and Nighthawk soon attacked
and Mandrill fled in a cab. Hellcat was released from his control, but
Valkyrie was not.

(Defenders I#91) - Mandrill forced Judge Clark to
begin calling the proceedings the way he wanted her to. At his
headquarters, Mandrill reveled in his victories before Fem-Force, and
appointed Valkyrie his second-in-command. Mandrill led his forces to
the Arrowshaft Nuclear Plant, not knowing that Daredevil had tagged
along in pursuit. He surprised his parents, holding his father at
gunpoint and taking over his mother, who led Fem-Force below in the
facility on a day when a women’s group was marching outside. He had a
portion of Fem-Force move to open the nuclear levels and, despite
opposition from Hellcat, one of Fem-Force, Selma, was able to do so.
Mandrill, his father, and the rest of Fem-Force donned containment
suits and were shocked when Nighthawk and Daredevil attacked. Mandrill
held his father hostage and rushed forward into the radiation chamber,
where Mandrill forced his father to take off the suit, hoping to expose
his father, killing him. Hulk burst through the wall and Mandrill
threatened to blow up the reactor until Hulk successfully shut it down.
Mandrill prepared to fire his gun at the Hulk, who’d become Bruce
Banner, but his mother shot him in the back, seemingly killing him.

(Avengers West Coast#66/2) - After finding Nekra's
corpse near Grim Reaper's grave, Mandrill tracked down the Reaper
seeking revenge, but the Reaper turned his scythe on Mandrill,
seemingly slaying him and absorbing his energy, leaving Mandrill a
withered husk.

(New Warriors I#36) - Mandrill was transferred to
another cell within the Vault, bopped on the head by a guard.

(Thunderbolts Annual 1997 (fb)) - Mandrill escaped
the Vault alongside several other villains, and attacked new heroes
Citizen V (Helmut Zemo), Atlas, and Songbird, all members of the
Thunderbolts, when they opposed them. Mandrill tried to control
Songbird, but she hit him with a sound construct and knocked him out.

(She-Hulk I#5) - Mandrill was transferred to the Big
House, a prison where villains were kept at small sizes while
full-sized guards watched over them. Mandrill allied with Mad Thinker
and others in plotting a jailbreak. Mad Thinker's plot did not allow
for Mandrill to escape, but Mandrill agreed with it anyway for unknown
reasons. The carefully orchestrated plot went off as planned. Mandrill
was reduced even further in size and he entered the nose of one of the
female guards in order to take control over her, his power reduced due
to his small stature.

(She-Hulk I#6 - BTS) - The Big House escapees were
recaptured.

(Spider-Man: Breakout I#3 (fb)) - Mandrill joined up
with a mutant gang in prison, but was called over by Crossfire's gang,
along with Mr. Fear, Controller, and Corrupter.

(Spider-Man: Breakout#1 (fb)) - Mandrill, Crossfire's
gang, and the U-Foes plotted their escape, but their escape plan was
ruined when one of the prison guards betrayed them. Believing that the
U-Foes had turned them in, Mandrill and the others grew to hate the
U-Foes.

(New Avengers I#1) - Electro broke dozens of
villains, including Mandrill, out of the Raft.

(New Avengers I#3) - Some villains fought the heroes
and were captured while other villains escaped.

(New Avengers I#4 - BTS) - Mandrill was
confirmed as one of the Raft escapees.

(Spider-Man: Breakout#1/New Avengers#4) - Mandrill
made a break for it with the others in Crossfire's gang in an
underground ship. He grew angry that he didn't have time to rip out
Vector's throat.

(Spider-Man: Breakout#2) - After a few skirmishes
with the U-Foes in the streets, Crossfire moved his gang from Coney
Island to another hideout, though Mr. Fear had been arrested.

(Spider-Man: Breakout#3) - Mandrill helped the gang
to break into the building of Courtland Whitehead, controlling some
women to get in and ordering the women to kill themselves if they were
exposed. They did this in order to track down Rozalyn Backus (the guard
who'd betrayed them).

(Spider-Man: Breakout#4) - Crossfire's gang (sans
Corrupter) finally found Backus, and took hundreds of hostages via
mind-control before confronting her. Spider-Man was there as well.

(Spider-Man: Breakout#5) - While cuddling and
carousing with some of the female hostages, Mandrill was attacked by
Vapor, who his power had no control over as she was not flesh and
blood, and he tried to run for it. He was knocked unconscious by
Ironclad and X-Ray, and later re-arrested, along with Crossfire and
Controller.

(I Heart Marvel: Web of Romance#1) - After being
apprehended by Spider-Man, Mandrill hung suspended, upside-down, in the
hero's webbing. Spider-Man, while waiting for the authorities to
apprehend Mandrill, discussed possible Valentines' gifts for his wife.
Mandrill, rather defensive about his red-hued behind, bantered with
Spider-Man until the hero departed.

(Daughters of the Dragon#4) - After eating curry,
Mandrill played a game of dominoes with Sandman.

(New Avengers I#35) - Alongside several villains,
Mandrill attended a meeting organized by the Hood,
took a 20,000 cash payment, and agreed to join the
Hood's organized gang, with another head being John
King. The Hood beat up Tigra to prove his power, and
the villains, while celebrating, watched a video of
this.

(Punisher War Journal II#14) - Kraven killed Aragorn
and fed the horse to the prisoners, who refused to
eat. Later, Kraven used his skills and potions to
drive all the captives into bestial rages. He set them
loose on his sinking ship to attack the Punisher
(Frank Castle).

(Punisher War Journal II#15) - Enraged, Mandrill
attacked Punisher, who took down Mandrill with a
series of punches. Mandrill's left eye was dislodged
in the attack.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z
Hardcover#6: Mandrill - BTS) - Mandrill was again taken to the Raft.

(Secret Invasion#1 - BTS) - The Mandrill was
confirmed to be a prisoner aboard the Raft when a
tehchnological malfuction hit the prison.

(New Avengers I#46) - Mandrill was present along with
the rest of the Hood's army when they tortured a SHIELD agent who
proved to be a Skrull. Guided by Demonicus, the Hood used his demonic
powers to determine that a skrull was impersonating the Slug, and he
shot and killed the imposter.

(Dark Reign: The Hood#4) - The Hood led Scorcher,
Mr. Fear, Piledriver, and Mandrill into battle against Force, saving
fellow criminal the Shocker. After Force was defeated, however, White
Fang stopped the villains to leave a warning with the Hood.

(Avengers: The Initiative#26) - After the Hood's army
took over as the registered heroes of the Initiative, under Osborn's
regime, and relocated to Camp HAMMER in New Mexico, Mandrill was among
the horrified recruits who saw the demonic Hood eat recruit Vampiro for
insubordination.

(Dark Reign: The Hood#5) - As Mandrill and the others
woke up from the high frequency attack, Force attacked, flanked by a
group of soldiers who swiftly placed Mandrill under arrest. More of the
Hood's gang arrived and freed Mandrill and the others, and the Hood
soon ordered them back to base. Later, the gang was discussing who
should lead them with Hood gone, but he returned and promised to show
his power again. As the gang assembled to watch him, Hood, without his
cloak, defeated White Fang and Force and deftly defeated the
Controller, who'd sought to usurp him.

(New Avengers I#55) - When the Hood went missing with
Madame Masque and John King, the other members of his gang argued over
who would take a leadership role. Jonas Harrow soon announced his plans
to use a power inhibitor against the Avengers. Members of the Hood's
gang included: Piledriver, Thunderball, Bulldozer, Wrecker, Griffin,
Tiger Shark, Brothers Grimm, Living Laser, Blood Brother, Blackout,
Corruptor, Crossfire, Mandrill, Dr. Demonicus, Shockwave, Scarecrow,
Corruptor, Chemistro, and others.

(New Avengers I#56) - When the Hood's powers failed,
his army revolted, under the leadership of Jonas Harrow, who used a
device to cancel out the powers of the New Avengers (Ronin,
Mockingbird, Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Ms.
Marvel, Luke Cage) and Osborn's Avengers (Iron Patriot, Ms. Marvel,
Spider-Man, Wolverine, Ares, Sentry, Hawkeye). Members of the Hood's
army gathered to make their demands, including Crossfire, Cutthroat,
the Brothers Grimm, Mr. Hyde, Mandrill, Razorfist, Armadillo,
Scarecrow, Bulldozer, Piledriver, Wrecker, Thunderball, Chemistro, and
Dr. Demonicus.

(New Avengers I#57) - Mandrill watched Osborn agree
to Harrow's terms. The
power dampener switched off, allowing the New Avengers to escape via a
Quinjet that blasted the assembled army of villains.

(Avengers: The Initiative#31) - To get back at the
Hood, Tigra attacked and savagely beat Mandrill, who'd been surrounded
by beautiful blonde women.

(New Avengers I#60) - A furious Hood returned to his
army and killed Jonas Harrow for his betrayal. Hood chided the
criminals for their panicked actions, and told them they now had to
follow Osborn's orders. Osborn told them to hunt the unregistered
heroes and bring them back, dead or alive.

(New Avengers I#61) - The Hood used the Asgardian
Norn Stones to give those in his army the ability to track down the
targeted heroes, increasing their own strength and power as well.
Mandrill and Griffin watched for Avengers, discussing varying motives
of power and money, Mandrill himself hoping for a chance at the big
leagues if he killed one of the Avengers. They soon attacked Spider-Man
and Spider-Woman, who fired venom bursts at Mandrill, though he soon
got her under the control of his powers, after smashing her into a
wall, and ordered her to kill Spider-Man and then herself. After it
appeared Spider-Man was dead, Mandrill ordered her to reveal where the
other Avengers were.

(New Avengers I#62) - Mandrill and Griffin watched
the mind-controlled Spider-Woman fight Spider-Man. When Spider-Woman
regained her senses Spider-Man pretended to have been knocked out by
her. Mandrill and Griffin came close to finish Spider-Woman, but the
two heroes quickly defeated the surprised criminals and Spider-Man
webbed them up.

(New Avengers I#64 (fb)) - The Hood approached his
army and let them know of Osborn's offer to make them certified heroes
if they participated in the siege on Asgard. Living Laser and Mandrill
were teased about their failure to ensnare the Avengers. Mandrill opted
out of the deal, feeling like Osborn was using them all as cannon
fodder, so the Hood violently ripped his powers away from him, leaving
Mandrill in pain. Mandrill quickly changed his mind and returned to the
group.

(Avengers: The Initiative#33) - Mandrill was among
the villains defending Camp HAMMER when the Avengers Resistance
attacked it.

(Avengers: The Initiative#34) - During the
battle for Camp: HAMMER, the Hood ordered his men, including Mandrill,
to teleport with him to Asgard to aid Osborn in battle.

(Siege#3/New Avengers I#63/Thor I#608) - In the
ensuing battle with Asgard, Mandrill was hit by Captain America's
shield, and he fought multiple Asgardians.

(New Avengers I#64) - Later, during the siege of
Asgard, Loki took away all their additional powers as the city crashed
around them.

(New Avengers Finale#1) - As the heroes arrested
the defeated villains, Mandrill told them that the Hood and Madame
Masque had abandoned them.

(Avengers Academy#3) - From his cell in the Raft,
Mandrill taunted the visiting Avengers trainees (Finesse, Hazmat,
Mettle, Reptil, Striker, Veil)and Luke Cage about his powers to make
women do what he wants.

(X-Men: To Serve and Protect#1) - In San Francisco,
Mandrill took over the minds at a spa full of rich, beautiful women,
including Abby, not knowing Emma Frost was there. She read his mind to
learn about his powers, then turned into diamond so she'd be immune to
them. He ordered the women to attack Frost, but she knocked them in the
pool to wash off the musk, then made fun of Mandrill's name being
Man-drill, and thus Freudian. As she stripped away his defenses and
inferiorities, she turned back to her flesh form, then telepathically
made it so he would see all women with a mandrill head. Mandrill rushed
down the street screaming at how ugly everyone was.

(Thunderbolts
I#155) – Armadillo, Mandrill, Mr. Hyde, Dark Beast, and Troll (Gunna)
were among the candidates incarcerated at the Raft who were selected to
potentially be part of the new Thunderbolts beta team.

(Thunderbolts
I#156) – Mandrill tried influencing Songbird into making him a team
member, but she just ordered him returned to his cell.

(Free
Comic Book Day 2011 Spider-Man I#1 (fb) – BTS) – Mandrill went to New
York where he took command over a group of super models as well as the
heroine Spider-Woman. He took them to rob an expensive jewelry store on
Fifth Avenue.

(Free Comic Book Day 2011
Spider-Man I#1) – Spider-Man attacked Spider-Woman. Mandrill, wearing
an Armani, stood to the side with his super models, wanting the fight
to end so he could get a gelato. When they went out of sight, Mandrill
led his models down the road, complaining about how thin they were and
vowing to get beefier girls next time. When Spider-Man managed to
negate Mandrill’s powers by dousing Spider-Woman in perfumes, the duo
both punched him out, defeating him. Mandrill was soon loaded up by the
police.

(Gambit V#17) - Mandrill was one of the prisoners,
which also included Griz, Icemaster, Lightmaster, Vic Slaughter and
Supercharger, taking Borya Cich's offer to kill Gambit, who had broken
into the prison, for one million dollars or 100,000 for aiding in his
death. He participated in the battle, which was soon joined by Gambit's
friends from MI13 and the Avengers Unity Squad. He temporarily
controlled Faiza of Excalibur when he attempted to escape prison, but
he ran right into the arms of the Avegners Unity Squad and was caught
again. The prisoners failed to kill Gambit.

(Fantastic Four V#11) - At Ryker's, She-Thing ordered
Man-Bull, Vermin, Mandrill, and Mountain Man in the showers to attack
Thing, but Thing won with some help from Sandman.

any other "Man" or "Drill" characters or
characters named after primates

Frederic and
Emily Beechman

(Daredevil I#110 (fb)) - Mr. Beechman worked at a
radiation facility where he was exposed to radiation.

(Defenders I#91/Daredevil I#110 (fb) - BTS) - When
the Beechmans’ son Jerome was born a mutant, Mrs. Beechman sensed that
he may be dangerous to women and sent her husband out with the baby to
leave it to die in the desert. Mr. Beechman took pity, though, and left
the child near water, hoping he would survive.

(Defenders I#91) - The child, now grown to be the
dangerous Mandrill, attacked the Beechmans at their place of work,
Arrowshaft Nuclear Plant, and took mental hold of his mother while
holding his father at gunpoint. They entered the facility with
Mandrill, who planned to use the plant for villainous purposes. The
Defenders and Daredevil arrived to aid them, however, and Mr. Beechman,
in the reactor without a containment suit, watched his wife shoot
Mandrill in the back, seemingly killing him. He was rushed to the
hospital (Frederic).